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The Ainu language has had no system of writing, and has historically been transliterated by the Japanese kana or the Russian Cyrillic.

Today, it is typically written in either katakana or Latin alphabet.

The unwieldy nature of the Japanese kana with its inability to accurately represent terminal consonants has contributed to the degradation of the original Ainu.

For example, some words, such as " Kor " ( meaning " to hold "), are now pronounced with a terminal vowel sound, as in " Koro ".